Sentence examples for mere contract from inspiring English sources

Such a transaction in Anglo-American law is called a "sale," as distinct from a mere "contract to sell".

The British factories were reduced from a major profit centre to mere contract manufacturers, paid a margin over their costs by Pepsico's Swiss trading company.

Whether this ground was correct or not, it was that on which the court decided, and the case therefore is not an authority for giving a like effect to matters of mere contract.

Instead, the cosseted domestic firms have failed to learn, and have been relegated to mere contract manufacturers.If market forces were allowed to function in the Chinese motor industry both by ending the subsidies and letting the foreign carmakers either buy up their Chinese partners, or dump them and go it alone there would surely be a drastic consolidation.

The decision of the questions arising upon this record, relating, as they do, to rights and remedies of a mere contract creditor of the state of South Carolina, is not in anywise controlled by the ruling in South Carolina v. United States, 199 U. S. 437, 50 L. ed.

Stars were no longer mere contract employees; and as they grew richer, so did their agents.

It reduces human interactions down to mere contracts and it is antithetical to my worldview.

'But mere contracts between private corporations and the United States do not necessarily render the former essential government agencies and confer freedom from state control.' Page 323 (36 S. Ct. 300).

It reduces human interactions down to mere contracts and it is antithetical to my [Roman Catholic] worldview".

The difference this time round is rather than a mere verbal contract with voters, there is an actual contract being hammered out with numbers and timetables and signatures on dotted lines.

Even Switzerland, with the loosest, requires a permit to buy a gun from a shop, while a mere written contract covers a private sale.